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From: caasnsr@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Clifford Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: Shareware + Pseudo-Shareware
Message-ID: <1291@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Date: 31 Jan 88 03:07:33 GMT
References: <11511@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: caasnsr@nmtsun.UUCP (Clifford Adams)
Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro
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In article <11511@brl-adm.ARPA> smith@nrl-aic.arpa (Russ Smith) writes:
>(2) Those programs that say "Pay up if you use this program
>    only if you want to, but it's okay if you don't" or
>    equivalent earn a lotta respect for the programmer. I fully
>    intend to distribute software I am writing in the same
>    manner. In general, the software I write I write for me. If
>    I can give it away and people will actually ACCEPT it, wow,
>    big ego boost. If they want to send money too, zowie! [I'd be
>    happy to send them an update disk, if any]. But if they don't,
>    well, hey, I wrote it for me anyway.
>

	Exactly.

	Many people here on the net don't seem to realize that others
write programs because it is *fun* to do.  But it is nice to be
appreciated.  I can't imagine writing shareware to support myself, but
it would be nice to receive some payment for the usage.  Also, the
individual payments need not be large if there are many of them.  I
would much prefer getting 200 people to send a quarter each than for
20 people to each send $5.  But either way, the money will definitely
help me think of the user next time I am tempted to do something ugly
with the program.  Or am tempted to leave out documentation... Etc...

-- 
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